In the wake of the EcoChic Design Award 2015/16 finale, we caught up with last year’s winner Kévin Germanier. The 2014/15 cycle victor talked to us about his exclusive upcoming collection for Shanghai Tang, as well as his experiences of working with sustainable materials in a commercial environment.

The EcoChic Design Award is returning for its fifth year, and this time around organisers Redress are celebrating this milestone anniversary by showcasing even more outstanding sustainable design talent from around the world. Bloomsbury Publishing is proud to support this event for the third year in a row and can’t wait to show you this year’s entries.

This year Bloomsbury sponsored Modeconnect’s #YourView15 competition, a contest that scoured the globe to find the best and brightest fashion design students. Well, we’re very excited to announce that this years winner Megan Wyatt sat down with us to discuss her recent victory and the inspiration behind her winning collection.

This year Bloomsbury are sponsoring Modeconnect‘s fashion competition, YourView. You can vote for your favourite finalist from 11th July: check out the first six announced below (particularly loving the goggle-eyed cats and Afro-Japanese style).

James Walker’s collection leapt out at us when we saw it on the catwalk at the UCA Epsom show at GFW this year. Eye-catching, memorable, tongue-in-cheek and quintessentially British. We weren’t surprised when we heard that we was up for the Gold Award. He kindly made some time to speak to us at the show, explaining what inspired him.

New digital technologies have transformed the landscape of fashion design, particularly when it comes to printed textile design. Recently, fashion has seen designers such as Mary Katrantzou making colourful and eclectic prints their signature style. Printed textiles are flavour of the year in the fashion world – to the extent that at the recent Graduate Fashion Week, Julien Macdonald voiced his opinion that the print market is currently ‘saturated’. But many young designers are experimenting with digital, trying out new software and pushing the boundaries of what can be achieved when you move away from traditional methods. Kate Lynch has just graduated with a wholly digital collection. Kate will be selling her work at New Designers and Indigo.

For our latest graduate profile, we spoke to Ally Carter about some of her most successful student projects – several of which feature in Design Research, the latest title in our Basics Graphic Design series.

Jung Ha-Brookshire, Associate Professor of Textile and Apparel Management at the University of Missouri was recently awarded the 2017 Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence, a highly esteemed award for instructors. Ha-Brookshire’s book, Global Sourcing in the Textile and Apparel Industry, dives into the global nature of the textile industry. Today, over 95% of textile and […]

Dr. Valerie Steele is Chief Curator and Editor-in-Chief of the Fashion Photography Archive. She is an internationally renowned scholar and Director and Chief Curator of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. Watch her introduce the Fashion Photography Archive and discuss the significance of the era covering the 1970s through 2000 […]

I began writing Sustainable Graphic Design: Principles and Practice as a way to develop how to teach sustainable design. It is really a case study of that process, but far less messy. I think you’ll find it is written to both you, the instructor, and your students. I wanted to write something that would speak […]